Before I sang or wrote songs on guitar, I did… whatever this was. Noise, I suppose. No instruments were used in the recording of this: mostly I used...
Songs mostly written and recorded in 2000 and 2001 on a home PC. The exception to this–track 12, which was written in 1999–was recorded in 2000 and was...
Songs from the same time period as New Roman Fantasy, but with more of my experiments in computer-generated beats, loops, and overdubs sandwiched between the acoustic songs.
I. THE HIGH-SPEED DUB (1987-1997)
Acoustic guitar and voice. Recorded with wave editing software and the microphone from a typical turn of the century home PC.
Two shorter releases from 2002 and 2003, re-sequenced with some cuts. This was my first time using recording equipment that did not come free with a personal computer....
A collection of recordings from 2003 and earlier that weren’t on the earlier albums and weren’t on Venus is Coming to Kill You. Some experimental stuff, some improvisations,...
The album itself is all guitar and voice, but then the bonus tracks (particularly tracks 11 and 12) saw me experimenting more with production.
VIII. YOU’LL WANT A FRIEND (2001-2002)
This is a good one–an easier listen than many of my albums. Mostly just acoustic guitar and voice. Some good songwriting and an accidental nature theme.
In 2010 I accidentally made a novelty record. I recorded these to help me study: I’d listen to the songs while driving, then get them stuck in my...
XIV. Passing through Love Park (2007)
XIX. Aberrant (2011)
Never again will I come back to this place. I have degrees. Tokens. Memories of more reckless human contact, from when my skin integrity could be better trusted....
I was beautiful to him. He had had his doubts, as I probably did too, but now that he was holding my hand, walking with me along the...
Let n equal all those who have died before me, contemporaries whose lifespans my own surpasses. Here is your sample. Here is your proof. No reason to think...
“I was kept in a cage a lot like this one,” said the illusionist. He laughed. He was handsome. “But, you know, I went to high school in...
I kept begging that she should lead me to the place where she was magic. Across the river the General stood, as always. I had watched this statue’s...
When I was thirteen, I decided that I was a person. David was only ten at the time, so I decided for him, too. Practically speaking, we still...
“My mom misses me, sure, but I’ll go back there someday. I just had to come to California and find myself, I suppose. I didn’t have a lot...
We would do it because we love you. We would carry your bags inside, give you a change of clothes, and look around for an extra blanket. We...
The first dog said hello. The second dog only sniffed at the first dog’s butt.
During weekends at Auntie Emma’s house, my brother ate chicken nuggets. I often watched him lean over the tray table, forking nuggets—dragging them through the ketchup, disappearing them...
Jamie-Q has written that there is a point at which a human identity fails—when a person has no choice but to re-invent him- or herself—and that the process...
One night at my favorite website for pornography, I discovered a tame but very appealing video clip of two boys kissing. One of the boys reminded me of...
“Eric!” Eric’s wife, Jamie, called out as soon as Eric had walked in the door.
I am woozy by the time I’m in the driveway. I would use my walker for this, but it is inside the ground level of the house. So...
I hated fireworks, but Dorothy loved them, and I loved her, and I was in Kansas now.
The curmudgeon’s face was not immediately visible as I stepped outside to breathe the still autumn air. He was clinging to the handrail, his torso upon the first...
She touches one of the skateboarders. “Take us to San Francisco!”
The consciousness of the cat named Kitty has only inhabited its present body for a few months now. Due to the fact that Kitty still hangs onto impressions...
Although comfortable in darkness, we kept a lamp on at night for convenience’s sake. The two of us read silently in our beds until we fell asleep, and...
The first dog barked and scratched at a door. Daryl found himself posing in expectation of the human he was sure was about to emerge to let the...
Marcy’s hair, fake red, no-I-mean-brighter-than-that fake red, but cut by her friend Alex, who doesn’t know how to cut hair. Definitely a bedroom cut. Nineteen years old, like...
I think to myself that I should walk to the mall and buy a present for my dog. Not that Chomps would know the difference if I gave...
Daryl, the Doctor, and the first dog entered a small room, in which several other dogs were sitting at a table, playing a game.
The people in the back seat can’t hear Marcy’s yells over the car radio and wind.
The first time I ever slept next to my mother, I was twenty-two. I cried until I fell asleep, then woke up crying.
Back in the city of Santa Cruz. In her sundress, which Mark said made her look like a ballerina. That was a comment she didn’t understand. She is...
Vehicles did not always float along roads the way they do now. In my youth, and even in my middle age, travel meant physical contact between the pavement...
Here you’ll find all available evidence of my behaving like a musician in the 2010s that is not science-related. The songs here were first shared on the Internet...
XXIV. They Can Hold You Down (2016)
A compilation of Levi Adams material just for the streaming services. These are all available free to download from Bandcamp also.